ensure that you get a great... by Krystynn
ensure that you get a great tour guide - be it a professional guide or a pseudo-guide (read: your clueless friends... Oops!).There are so many sites and attractions to discover in Long Beach that without a good car and your friends to drive you around, you will really need the professional help of a good tour guide. I mean it. Otherwise, you'd end up like me - visiting all the supermarkets... and other non-touristy sites because my friend (a Long Beach resident) is as clueless as me! I'd get killed for writing this if my friend reads this page. All in good jest.... All in good jest, D. Anyway, should you need professional help (and I don't mean a psychiatrist!), do check out some of the tour companies that I've listed below to help you with your pre-trip planning:
Long Beach Heritage
P.O. Box 92521 Long Beach, 90808-2521. 562/493-7019.
Long Beach Heritage, a nonprofit cultural heritage group, offers regularly scheduled and 'custom-made' walking tours of historic and architectural Downtown Long Beach.
For more info and reservations, please call: 562/493-7019.
Santa Catalina Island Company/Discovery Tours
Discovery Tour Center, Crescent Ave., (across from Pleasure Pier).
P.O. Box 737, Avalon 90704. 310/510-2500, 800/428-2566; fax 310/510-7254.
Discover Catalina Island by land and sea... and experience the company's rugged Inland Motor Tour, exclusive Casino Tour, extraordinary Glass Bottom Boat Trip (day and night) and more.
May through October - even includes romantic dinner cruises and the world?s only Flying Fish Trip! The new Starlight, a semi-submersible vessel , is not just a tour, it?s an undersea experience!
Hey, how come I never get to try this out, D? :-(
US Helicopters
4225 Donald Douglas Drive., #103, Long Beach 90808. 562/497-0390 or fax at 562/497-0392.
Take a helicopter flight over the City of Angels. Exclusive helicopter tours from Long Beach Airport to above Disneyland, Beaches.... They also have Long Beach Harbor Tours and Los Angeles Tours.... Cool.
